Between Being and Time: From Ontology to Eschatology [Hardcover]

This book explores the relationship between being and time between ontology and history in the context of both Christian theology and philosophical inquiry. Each chapter tests the limits of this multifaceted thematic vis-?-vis a wide variety of sources: from patristics (Maximus the Confessor, Gregory of Nyssa) to philosophy (Kant, Kierkegaard, Heidegger) to modern theology (Berdyaev, Ratzinger, Fagerberg, Zizioulas, Yannaras, Loudovikos); from incarnation to eschatology; and from liturgy and ecclesiology to political theology. Among other topics, time and eternity, protology and eschatology, personhood and relation, and ontology and responsibility within history form core areas of inquiry. Between Being and Time facilitates an auspicious dialogue between philosophy and theology and, within the latter, between Catholic and Orthodox thought. It will be of considerable interest to scholars of Christian theology and philosophy of religion.

Andrew T.J. Kaethler is academic dean and assistant professor of theology at Catholic Pacific College.

Sotiris Mitralexis is assistant professor of philosophy at the City University of Istanbul and visiting research fellow at the University of Winchester.

It is in Christ that time and eternity, history and metaphysics, hold together. This Christological convictionand the relational understanding of reality that it entailsunites Andrew T.J. Kaethler and Sotiris Mitralexiss extraordinary collection of essays. By no means do the authors agree on every point. But the relational ontology of love on display in this book flows from a shared, ever-deepening movement into the triune God of history. Hans Boersma, J.I. Packer Professor of Theology, Regent College

How we perceive reality and comport ourselves depends on our understanding of temporality. In this important volume, an ecumenical group of noteworthy scholars unfolds for the reader the rich implications of this claim for philosophy, theology, and indeed,lã²